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...until two hours later did Paris learn the news. . . . Even dyspeptics chuckled, and men of spirit openly roared at one another over café tables: "Vive Daudet! Vive l'Audace...
...there-the book deserves a place on the bookshelf of even a confirmed domiciler. How many stay-at-homes, or travelers either, know that French Indo-China boasts a chief port (Saigon) which thoroughly deserves its nickname, "Paris of the East"? There you can sit at an iron café table, surrounded by boulevardiers who speak only French, for all the world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby is the stupendous Angkor Vat, a temple which few globe circlers see, but which ranks easily with...
...races in Abie's Irish Rose, Producer Anne Nichols now tries a mixture of cowboys and kings. Herein, a millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the indefinite trail of Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir...
...café in Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
...Sinclair Lewis, Lady Diana Manners, Fritzi Massary, "the German Sarah Bernhardt," strolled past the café, were filmed en passant. James Speyer, famed Manhattan banker, followed with Mrs. Joseph Medill ("Chicago Tribune") Patterson (née Higinbotham...